{"id":555873,"date":"2019-03-19T15:31:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T15:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=58867c44ca1a4656898a50fc51276081"},"modified":"2019-03-19T15:31:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T15:31:59","slug":"the-candidates-beto-orourke-the-next-obama-or-a-pretty-face-empty-vessel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/03\/19\/the-candidates-beto-orourke-the-next-obama-or-a-pretty-face-empty-vessel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Candidates: Beto O&#8217;Rourke, the Next Obama, or a Pretty Face Empty Vessel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\">In the 10th installment of the Millennial Review we took a closer look at would-be-Ted-Cruz-replacer, Beto O'Rourke.\u00a0<\/p> <p data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\">Topics Include:\u00a0<\/p> <p data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\">Beto's first day fundraising totals, what they mean, what they don't mean, and what we need to know going forward to really make sense of those numbers.<\/p> <p data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\">Beto's genuine and undeniable charisma, its limits, and what it means for a potential Beto candidacy\/presidency.<\/p> <p data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\">A closer look at his really conservative record in congress. Some finer points, opposing \"the means\" of DACA, continued support for lenders at the expense of consumers, wishy-washy at best on issues like Medicare-For-All and the Green New Deal.\u00a0<\/p> <p data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\">The very real problem with Beto's political ambition or lack of principles, whichever it is, they're both bad.<\/p> <p data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\">And much more!<\/p> <p data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\">As always, you can support everything we do by joining us on patreon. That includes our meme operation (help us win the meme war, buy meme bonds today) the articles we write (thousands of words each month) and of course, you'll get access to more podcasts and a lot more to come! Pateron.com\/MillennialReview<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/millennialreview.libsyn.com\/the-candidates-beto-orourke-the-next-jfk-or-a-pretty-face-empty-vessel\">Millennial Review<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 10th installment of the Millennial Review we took a closer look at would-be-Ted-Cruz-replacer, Beto O&#8217;Rourke.\u00a0 Topics Include:\u00a0 Beto&#8217;s first day fundraising totals, what they mean, what they don&#8217;t mean, and what we need to know going forward to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":555874,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555873\/revisions\/555874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}